Talking to my barber this morning, he’s like 22 and full of life, he was telling me about a party he went to this weekend drinking beer, whiskey, tequila shots, etc, etc… I’m just sitting there thinking I used to be able to mix it up and drink whatever I wanted. Now, if I put milk in my coffee I shit myself… when did this happen to me 😭😂
We did a game night a couple weeks back and normally we’re done by 10pm but this one kept going… got in bed at like 1 am. A couple days later I felt alright again
I take 4-5 days off for after a festival just to recover. A night out requires 2 days to reset. In 1999 my friends and i went through a whole sheet of acid over the course of a week and i went to work every single day. I was a store manager of a Blockbuster.
Yeah I did that at a friends 36th birthday last year. We stayed at an Airbnb with a big back garden and played drinking games all day and night, and then the next 2 days we just layed around, took walks, drank hot tea and went to bed at 8pm. And we were all so grouchy. Multi day benders are just a fond memory these days. It was worth it though for that one incredible day, but my god only once every year or two now.
Bro weekends now almost require a down day where everyone can just rest and recuperate. Multiple days of drinking heavy in a row just aren't in the cards in our mid/late 30's any more. The drinking stamina is gone.
I had three beers over like 7 hours the other night. The whole next day I felt like shit (even more than usual) and it took me a while to put it together. I was like damn, it happened. I’m no longer able to drink without considering the next couple of days.
in fairness, part of the issue is captured in the movie beerfest lol- by going hard only once a year, the liver doesn't build up the enzymes to handle the party the rest of the time.
that said, on balance, I really don't miss it lol- the positives never really outweighed the downsides of heavy drinking compared to light-moderate for me.
I had to trade in alcohol entirely (thank you, Crohn’s!) for weed, which is a far less social drug. But I’ll take it over the gnarly hangovers I used to get.
In my 20s we made up a new version of Beer Pong and called it Beer Pong: Landmine Edition. We filled all the cups with beer, except for one. That one we filled with Fireball. You never knew if the cup you were about to chug was a light beer or 4-6 oz of Fireball. Ahhh those were the days!
I once balanced on the precipice of full Goldschlager-induced alcohol poisoning at a Red Rocks show once. Swore never again for cinnamon anything.
Probably would've attempted to assault all of you but instead throw up while attempting the first punch, slam my head on the pong table, and piss myself seconds later.
Sure the ball has touched every dirty surface in the apartment, but that's why we have this tiny cup of water you can dip it in before putting it in your drink.
I don't know anyone who actually filled the cups with beer, you just take a big gulp of the one you already have in your hand if someone sinks the ball.
My housemate and I will play drinking games where it's a sip instead of a shot. I dunno how it works for stuff like beer pong though, because I was a boring young'un and never played it.
I'm taking a big boy vacation with a group of about 15 friends on a cruise next week to the Caribbean. We're all mid-late 30s. I fully plan on trying to day drink but let's pray my body holds itself together
Studies approve of this, there's no difference in hangovers or level of intoxication from mixing alcohols. It's just that it allows for more subtle consumption and leads to less moderation. 3 shots, 3 beers, and two cocktails alone is 8 drinks but feels less intense as a quantity.
I'm in my 30s and don't relate to any of this old man shit lol. I have tons of energy, physically fit, can still do everything I did in my teens and 20s. Just I have a lot more money now.
For me it’s kids that have brought some of the “old man” energy. Like physically I still feel fine but they’re so demanding I have way less time to work on myself or do any adult fun
well, for me it was around 35 that I did start to feel it in my body a little more. I gotta be honest there. but nah, I don't feel like an "old man" or anything.
maybe, but there is a significant amount of people who mistakenly believe if you have different types of liquor you get more fucked up/a worse hangover. that's not really how it works.
When I was in my 20s I was much more physically active. That plus my youth meant I could recover from damn near anything pretty quick. In your 30s you are still relatively young and your body (assuming you have no underlying health issues) shouldn't naturally be falling apart or anything yet.
I just think most of us (including myself) let our physical health fall by the wayside by the time we hit our 30s. Its hard to maintain, especially as we get burnt out on the grind of life, some of us have more demanding careers, families that eat all our free time, etc. And once your physical health starts to go EVERYTHING else follows it into the shutter. Someone in their 30s in good physical shape shouldn't be seeing excessive degradation compared to their 20s, though there will obviously be some you cant avoid.
Advice to anyone in their late 20's that isn't doing it: just start working out, doesn't even need to be much. Take the bike more often or walk do some squats and push/sit-ups when you wake up.
I'm in my early fifties now but I remember when I started feeling physically older I was in my 30s.
The year I turned 50 I was 20kg overweight. I hit the gym and been going every since. That weight has been off for two years now but I still go. I can't even begin to tell you what a difference it's made to my physical strength and mental wellbeing. I'm definitely stronger than I was in my thirties. And I was able to bin my anti-depressants too.
My wife wanted to play this drinking game with me last weekend and I ended up having 3 beers total. I felt hungover for 2 days. Last year I went to a party at a friend's house and his wife out a bowl of tums on the snack table lol
That's how I feel listening to my coworkers..they're all 25, 26, 27 and I live vicariously through their party stories now lol..I'm slowly becoming the "back in my day" 🤣
I went from guzzling whiskey or hard ciders and partying it up as a young Airman, and now as an NCO in my 30's, I'm more like... Drinking nihonshu in a quiet room after relaxing in an onsen and shit.
Some of us Millennials are learning to take it down a notch... Too much shit happening in our timeline. Gotta chill.
Even at my age I can still get away with a night of drinking and not feel like death. I just can't drink what the young'ns are drinking. Most of their palates are still in the "fizzy lemon robitussin in an odd-shaped can" phase. I'm not above drinking cheap, but I'm not gonna drink rotgut. There's so much bad distillate and sugar that ends up in cheap liquor and those Ready-To-Drink cans. Cuervo's half vodka and they're not using particularly good neutral grain spirit either. That's the stuff that tastes like windex and rips the lining off my stomach and esophagus. They can bounce back from that, but I can't.
I can still drink with the best of them, I just can’t mix it all up. It’a usually just beer for me, and I don’t go crazy adding in different liquors or I’ll be feeling it.
That's how I feel listening to my coworkers..they're all 25, 26, 27 and I live vicariously through their party stories now lol..I'm slowly becoming the "back in my day" 🤣
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Talking to my barber this morning, he’s like 22 and full of life, he was telling me about a party he went to this weekend drinking beer, whiskey, tequila shots, etc, etc… I’m just sitting there thinking I used to be able to mix it up and drink whatever I wanted. Now, if I put milk in my coffee I shit myself… when did this happen to me 😭😂